“The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs, ' like the health effects of air and water pollution.”
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One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up.
In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010.
Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.
Ever since the collapse of cap and trade legislation and the realization that President Obama is unlikely to ever utter the words 'climate change' in public again, much less use the bully pulpit to prepare the nation for the catastrophic risks of inaction, the movement has been in a funk.